Category: Business/Technology

Steve Krogull is on a mission. The director of system engineering and operations in the Division of Information Technology for the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his team are embarking on outreach to 97 different data centers on campus to persuade the people behind them to consider a new way of managing their data.

Students in an introductory environmental studies course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are playtesting a game on mobile devices to learn about sustainability on their campus.

Noted: Among her co-founders at Elucent are two University of Wisconsin-Madison professors who also have worked with NeuWave, which already has gone to market with a cancer-fighting treatment that uses microwave energy to destroy tumor cells.

Noted: It all began with Peter, who earned a degree in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and went on to the Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore.

In many ways, Heather Johnston is an anomaly.

In many ways, Heather Johnston is an anomaly.A mechanical engineering graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Phoenix native took a different career path than most of her college friends: She stayed in Wisconsin.

Noted: Cellectar was founded in Madison in 2003 by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Jamey Weichert. Following a 2011 merger with a public company, Novelos Therapeutics, the corporate headquarters was moved to Newton, Mass.

In the town of Verona on the rural fringes of Madison, Wisc., there?s a Google GOOGL +1.05%-like campus that houses one of the country?s most rapidly growing tech companies, and one of the least well known. Founded in 1979, the medical software maker Epic has grown to employ 6,800 people, most of whom work at its 5.5 million-square-foot headquarters complex, which sprawls over 800 acres of what was farmland until the early 1990s.

Maybe you?ve spotted it in your daily news feed in the last few weeks. Net neutrality — the idea that the Internet should remain an open, democratic, free-market medium for all people, regardless of how much they pay — is getting mainstream attention.

Campus Technology interviewed five CIOs about the perceptions of their changing role on campus, asking them to give examples of how they delegate, mentor, collaborate and strategize more than they used to. In part 4 of our series, the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Bruce Maas talks about the organizational changes that enable him to focus on a more strategic role. (Missed parts 1-3? See the Table of Contents on the top left of this article.)

Noted: CDI, which was co-founded by stem cell pioneer and University of Wisconsin-Madison professor James Thomson, said last week it had launched a new cell line, called iCell DopaNeurons, that could aid research into neurological disorders like Parkinson?s disease and schizophrenia.

A new partnership between Johnson Controls and the University of Wisconsin-Madison will explore how the next generation of car batteries will fit into the nation?s overall energy picture.

A student team that?s figured out how to inject color into plastic items made by 3-D printers took the top prize at the UW-Madison?s annual G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition.

MIGHTY MEALworm, a startup company led by UW-Madison graduate students Rachel Bergmans and Valerie Stull, was one of six winners of a nationwide contest to improve global food systems held in Madison last Friday and Saturday.

?When faced with a choice among colleges, go with the least expensive option,? Mark Cuban suggests. ?Most 18-year-olds don?t know what they want to do with their life, nor do most 22-year-olds. Saddling graduates with high debt makes no sense.?

The Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce joined a coalition of 44 cities Thursday that will advocate for greater federal spending in research, according to releases from the Madison and Boston Chambers of Commerce.

Noted: In her recent economic plan, Burke noted that life sciences research is one of the strengths of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

While the two have been taking care of business, they haven?t neglected their studies. Both are on pace to earn undergraduate degrees in fewer than four years. Also at UW, they?ve received support through The University of Wisconsin Law School?s Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic, which provides free legal services to entrepreneurs and small business owners … They?ve also received office space and other help from the UW Student Business Incubator, based out of the Student Activity Center.

Many companies have moved quickly to patch the code since the problem was discovered earlier this week, but there are likely several services out there that might be slow to respond. Nick Davis, an Information Security Architect with the UW-Madison, says that could sensitive data at risk, if businesses have failed to patch the bug.

Academic institutions are among those players often not addressed in the current patent reform debate. They don?t have the financial resources that big businesses like Apple and IBM, two companies that are part of a coordinated lobbying campaign, do.

Noted: Sanders grew up in Chicago and in 1971 earned his bachelor?s degree in history and economics from University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned a master?s degree in urban and regional planning from the university in 1973.

Noted: In recent months, there has been a surge of interest in, and investors have been willing to pay higher prices for, riskier, higher-debt companies, said Casey Karbowski, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: A year later, the company forged a $20.6 million cost-sharing agreement that has the National Nuclear Security Administration providing half of the funding, with Shine, the Morgridge Institute and the University of Wisconsin-Madison providing the other half.

The Milwaukee Brewers are reigning supreme in Milwaukee?s sports world Monday, but the Wisconsin Badgers are giving the team a run for its money.

Noted: The flurry of advances in recent years are the culmination of 30 years of groundwork that began with the formation of university technology transfer offices, said Midwest Research University Network co-founder and President Allen Dines of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.